Curved board with engraved patterns for printing barkcloth.

Collection type: Object
Description: Curved board with engraved patterns for printing barkcloth.
Geographical reference: Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Person: Field collector H.D. Cotton; Field collector London Missionary Society; PRM source Irene Marguerite Beasley
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1931
Date collected: By 1931
Acquisition information: Donated: 1941
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 935 mm, Width: max 365 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1941.2.57 Other numbers: 2918
Associated publications: A Museum photograph of the barkcloth display (not including this object) has been published as Figure 7 on page 53 of 'Computerizing the Forster (‘Cook’), Arawe, and Founding Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum’, by Jeremy Coote, Chantal Knowles, Nicolette Meister, and Alison Petch, in Pacific Arts, nos. 19/20 (July 1999), pp. 48–80. [ESR 01/11/2002]

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